Prologue
My Story Since Graduating Dental School
A year serving the Navajo Nation across three clinics in northern Arizona, from orthodontics to CAD-CAM in glorified trailers, and what two varied years in practice taught him.
The Issue
Fall 2013
Contents
Getting Started
Seven Mistakes to Avoid When Starting Out
Six-figure debt, slower lending and rising interest rates make early errors expensive. Seven mistakes new dentists make on entering practice, and how to avoid each.
Getting Started
Ace That Interview
Private practice or a corporate group, in a desirable area you will have competition.
Getting Started
Student Loan Debt: It’s Coming Sooner than You Think
A student with $350,000 in loans asked whether she could ever own a practice. Repayment, consolidation, the grace period and income-based repayment, and why the answer was yes.
Business Fundamentals
Sterilization Systems and Your Bottom Line
A practice is a healthcare facility before it is a business. Designing the sterilization area and its systems before opening day, and what getting it wrong costs later.
Business Fundamentals
Are You Ready for the Dental Electronic Health Records Revolution?
Federal incentive programmes offer up to $63,750 per eligible dentist, and Minnesota has already mandated EHR. What next-generation records change about care and reimbursement.
Business Fundamentals
Transfer of Records When Buying or Selling a Practice
HIPAA does not let a selling dentist hand patient records to the buyer without written authorisation. What the law actually permits when a practice changes hands.
The Power To Succeed
Would You Like Floss With That?
Many dentists build their business systems by trial and error into a semi-organised jigsaw.
The Power To Succeed
Be Ye Not Afraid, Ye Art a Dentist After All
Medicine was a cottage industry until ownership shifted from physicians to corporations.